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Ok I started watching 'From the New World' and would recommend it based on the first arc, if you are looking for sweet action/mystery, but then I watch episode 8 and now the majority of students are homosexual with no foreshadowing. I'm glad they take it further with tongue kissing/making out but it just comes out of nowhere. I guess puberty has changed in a thousand years.
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Oct 12, 2014 13:51
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Wark Say posted:So, at request of my daughter, we started watching the Girls Und Panzer Blu-Rays I got a few days ago. Since I love the anime and it looks like she's enjoying them too, I gotta ask: Are the various mangas / novels side-materials any good?
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Oct 12, 2014 14:37
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goodness posted:Anyone know of some animes that consist of survival games and the like, ex. Battle royale or hunger games Sabagebu.  Sydnesider posted:Ok I started watching 'From the New World' and would recommend it based on the first arc, if you are looking for sweet action/mystery, but then I watch episode 8 and now the majority of students are homosexual with no foreshadowing. I'm glad they take it further with tongue kissing/making out but it just comes out of nowhere. I guess puberty has changed in a thousand years. From the New World is a show that often keeps its cards close to its chest in regard to what's going on, but everything gets explained eventually, including that. I think.
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Oct 12, 2014 14:59
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Sydnesider posted:Ok I started watching 'From the New World' and would recommend it based on the first arc, if you are looking for sweet action/mystery, but then I watch episode 8 and now the majority of students are homosexual with no foreshadowing. I'm glad they take it further with tongue kissing/making out but it just comes out of nowhere. I guess puberty has changed in a thousand years. It was totally foreshadowed. The False Minoshiro explained that the Cantus users were genetically engineered to be like bonobos.
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Oct 12, 2014 15:23
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Sydnesider posted:Ok I started watching 'From the New World' and would recommend it based on the first arc, if you are looking for sweet action/mystery, but then I watch episode 8 and now the majority of students are homosexual with no foreshadowing. I'm glad they take it further with tongue kissing/making out but it just comes out of nowhere. I guess puberty has changed in a thousand years. you should look up some of the reactions from when that episode first got released after you finish the show, it was really funny
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Oct 12, 2014 15:27
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Sydnesider posted:Ok I started watching 'From the New World' and would recommend it based on the first arc, if you are looking for sweet action/mystery, but then I watch episode 8 and now the majority of students are homosexual with no foreshadowing. I'm glad they take it further with tongue kissing/making out but it just comes out of nowhere. I guess puberty has changed in a thousand years. Sakurazuka posted:From the New World is a show that often keeps its cards close to its chest in regard to what's going on, but everything gets explained eventually, including that. I think.
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Oct 12, 2014 19:56
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goodness posted:Anyone know of some animes that consist of survival games and the like, ex. Battle royale or hunger games Deadman Wonderland maybe? I'm not a massive fan but if you wan't some of that dark edgy Shonen that's been popular lately this falls into the same loose category and it's better than, say, Btooom IMHO.
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Oct 13, 2014 02:01
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Nate RFB posted:Since no one else chimed in what little I read of some of the manga spin-offs made them out to be 50-50 decent running gags (yay) and fanservice (boo). It did not seem particularly promising. Bummer. Thanks for the tip, Nate! Sydnesider posted:Ok I started watching 'From the New World' and would recommend it based on the first arc, if you are looking for sweet action/mystery, but then I watch episode 8 and now the majority of students are homosexual with no foreshadowing. I'm glad they take it further with tongue kissing/making out but it just comes out of nowhere. I guess puberty has changed in a thousand years. How on earth did you miss the explanation for that? It's explained in succinct but still perfectly good detail and used as a plot-point, even. Did they delete that scene on the BD's or something? Wark Say fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Oct 13, 2014 02:12
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So a friend of mine recommended me Wanna Be The Strongest In The World. It's about a Idol singer who tries to become a Pro Wrestler. The first time I tried to watch it I shut it off at the opening credits because one of the one of the first shots of the show is a close up of the main character's crotch. I gave it another chance and now I'm six episodes deep and as a Pro Wrestling fan I really am digging it. It's still fanservicy as all hell but they are actually did something interesting with it. I was wondering if there were any other shows or manga that are about Pro Wrestling. I know theres Ultimate Muscle but I was hoping for stuff more based in reality. Edit: I should also clarify, it doesn't have to be about woman's wrestling. Just anything Pro Wrestling in general. BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Oct 13, 2014 03:37
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Well there's Wanna-Be's, which while I haven't seen it in a while remember it being terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZePbBcg5SI For something that isn't garbage Happy Scans and HnG have been translating the Tiger Mask manga.
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Oct 13, 2014 03:54
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Teppuu is an amazing manga about woman's MMA.
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Oct 13, 2014 03:58
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The Devil Tesla posted:Teppuu is an amazing manga about woman's MMA. I'll second this. I'd kill for a Teppuu anime, too.
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Oct 13, 2014 04:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGKgBssiPyA Is this a good anime or just a good clip I must know
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Oct 13, 2014 04:12
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Wark Say posted:How on earth did you miss the explanation for that? It's explained in succinct but still perfectly good detail and used as a plot-point, even. Did they delete that scene on the BD's or something? I am sorry I am not an eagle-eyed viewer with a week's worth between episodes to re-watch and analyse every scene and could not catch 2 lines in seven episodes of blatant boy-girl pairing. Since I proved I cannot read accurately I will watch the dub and give my full undivided attention to this animes.
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Oct 13, 2014 04:32
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ninjewtsu posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGKgBssiPyA
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Oct 13, 2014 04:45
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Oh so like an Inferno Cop/Turning Girls type thing? Awesome, thanks
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Oct 13, 2014 04:50
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ninjewtsu posted:Oh so like an Inferno Cop/Turning Girls type thing? Awesome, thanks It was cute and usually funny, but it's no Nichijou. Dai;y Lives of High School boys comes sorta close, but wasn't as good (but was still good). Dai Mahou Touge was also close in funny-but-weird-as-poo poo. I liked both of those. But Nichijou was something special. Drifter fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Oct 13, 2014 05:30
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I'm not 100% sure whether I enjoyed what I watched or not It was kind of a weird thing
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Oct 13, 2014 05:34
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Watch Dai Mahou Touge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzEQ1n7EHPM The episodes are even on youtube, I think.
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Oct 13, 2014 05:59
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Wow. Some people in adtrw have been recommending Aiki repeatedly recently and I've been running out of things to read on my tablet at work, so I gave it a try. I made it six chapters in before unbookmarking it, which is impressive since I usually give everything I read ten chapters before deciding to continue or not. Based on those six, unless the rest are literally not at all like them, the series has no redeeming value. The fights are generic at best, the main character is an overpowered shitbag who hosed half the named characters in those six chapters, it is literally softcore porn with bad fighting and ~dumb bitches~ to be put in their place by the gary stu scumbag protagonist, and probably the worst offense of it is that the humor is the most rote, bland attempts at it. Also, incest by chapter two. Kinda disappointed people were recommending it at all unless it was ironic and I fell for it like people recommend Bible Black or School Days. I'd suggest avoiding it if someone suggests it to you.
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Oct 14, 2014 10:25
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Captain Invictus posted:Wow. Some people in adtrw have been recommending Aiki repeatedly recently and I've been running out of things to read on my tablet at work, so I gave it a try. The word I keep coming back to for Aiki is "puerile." I got farther than you did because it got talked up in the seinen thread, but I never really enjoyed it and have no desire to pick it back up again. I don't even count it as seinen; it's generic shounen with tits, so it can't be published in shounen mags (I guess?). There's a guy in here with an Aiki avatar who regularly posts in the "Convince people with one image" thread, and almost every image is one that makes me want to put that title in a "never read this ever" list. No offense to him, I think our sensibilities are just wildly different.
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Oct 14, 2014 11:57
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Well, its author is a porn artist, so I guess it's pretty much exactly what you'd expect. And my god, that wikipedia page is hilariously awful. Someone wrote that. Seriously.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:18
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Wow, he did Tende Freeze. I remember reading that ages ago, around the same time I read Tenchi Muyo or so. I literally cannot remember anything from it except it was generic fanservicey shounen with a main character who iirc looked exactly like a little kid version of the Aiki guy. The art was at least pretty decent and retro-feeling. edit: FUNKY ANIMAL is a pretty great name though
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Oct 14, 2014 20:35
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Che Delilas posted:I don't even count it as seinen; it's generic shounen with tits, so it can't be published in shounen mags (I guess?). There is no difference between the average seinen manga and shounen with tits.
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Oct 14, 2014 20:42
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Anyone got any girls' romance that has more to it than just fanservice? Failing that, a fun slice of life series with a good romance in it would also be good.
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Oct 19, 2014 03:14
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Spiritus Nox posted:Anyone got any girls' romance that has more to it than just fanservice? Failing that, a fun slice of life series with a good romance in it would also be good. like lesbian romance or romance targeted at girls? if it's the former there isn't much for anime. Sasameki Koto got an adaptation, but it only covers a small part of the manga. The manga is pretty good though. also Bodacious Space Pirates actually has a gay romance that's handled tastefully, which was surprising. Not a huge focus though. if manga is okay read Sasameki Koto, Octave and Aoi Hana
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Oct 19, 2014 03:27
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Yeah, there's a lot. I whipped up a pretty big post of romance stuff over in the misc shojo/romance thread.Captain Invictus posted:Alright, apologies for the double post but this thread doesn't move too quickly, and I've nearly run out of suggestions folks gave me, I think! Things I've read so far that's been suggested and what I thought of them: Captain Invictus posted:Wow uh, why is Sand Chronicles not in the OP? Aside from the horrible spiderfingers and general hand anatomy for most of it(I just got the last three volumes and the artist seems to have practiced a lot to fix it for those), it's an extremely well done series about a girl who goes through life, love, and traveling after suffering a major traumatic experience when young. It portrays things like trauma, depression, and the inability to let go pretty realistically, love, unrequited love, moving on, and other topics. The "heroine" is very flawed and doesn't always make the best decisions. The time scale is in years, not days or months, and it moves through Elementary, middle, and high school at a fairly brisk, reasonable rate, rather than beginning at, like, the first year of high school and ending at graduation. It then continues on into her life past the typical school years. There's also Cheese in the Trap, an interesting korean manwha about a girl and a sociopath, and Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa, which is one of my favorite series now because it's an adorable, dumb, really funny romcom with basically no fanservice outside of one character whose entire MO is fanservice(and yet is still a great character in her own right).
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Oct 19, 2014 03:31
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^^ - thanks, I'll take a look through some of those.Cake Attack posted:like lesbian romance or romance targeted at girls? The former. Though if there's nothing more grounded than Bodacious Space Pirates I might be out of luck as far as Anime goes. How about slice of life with decent romance? Spiritus Nox fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Oct 19, 2014 |
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Oct 19, 2014 03:32
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If you want yuri, you absolutely want Octave, Aoi Hana, Sasameki Koto, and Girl Friends then. Bonnouji is the gold standard for slice-of-life romance. Probably my favorite romance series period. Sekitou Elergy is also fairly slice of life/romance, but only a quarter of it has been scanlated. It's about blue-collar service workers past a school setting(a rare breed!) who end up together and then continues on through their relationship, which is even better! Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Oct 19, 2014 |
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Oct 19, 2014 03:36
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Spiritus Nox posted:How about slice of life with decent romance? Some slice of life anime series with romance that I'm aware of include Servant x Service (silly workplace antics,) One Week Friends (sweet as cane sugar, chilled out,) and Working!! (status quo hell as far as the romance goes, but quite funny.)
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Oct 19, 2014 03:36
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Working is bad
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Oct 19, 2014 03:39
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Captain Invictus posted:Working is bad I'm letting this slide because I think you were the dude that recommended me Bonnouji. Next time, you better get me that harrumph on time, Capitan.  vvvv e: They're both pretty sweet shows. But as it's been said before, neither presents the story in full, but if you like them enough, you'll probably end up checking the manga. 
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Oct 19, 2014 03:46
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Captain Invictus posted:Aoi Hana, Sasameki Koto Which of these had the better anime (assuming either actually made for a good anime)? I don't mind manga, but I'd prefer an anime.
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Oct 19, 2014 03:58
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Spiritus Nox posted:Which of these had the better anime (assuming either actually made for a good anime)? I don't mind manga, but I'd prefer an anime. Aoi Hana Neither gets anywhere near the actual end, but it at least gets through the first major arc. It looks great too. For yuri it's pretty much manga or nothing. Sadly. a kitten fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Oct 19, 2014 |
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Oct 19, 2014 04:02
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Got it. Thanks for the tips, folks. I'll probably check out Aoi Hana, and maybe Bonnouji.
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Oct 19, 2014 04:05
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Spiritus Nox posted:Got it. Thanks for the tips, folks. I'll probably check out Aoi Hana, and maybe Bonnouji. Bonnouji is pretty drat good I must say.
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Oct 19, 2014 04:07
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Spiritus Nox posted:Which of these had the better anime (assuming either actually made for a good anime)? I don't mind manga, but I'd prefer an anime. If you want a yuri anime that's not completely terrible and actually has a proper ending you could try Kashimashi (the manga is still better though). And I don't advise anyone watch it, but if your standards are as low as mine there's always Strawberry Panic, though that's purely desperation material.
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Oct 19, 2014 04:19
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Wark Say posted:I'm letting this slide because I think you were the dude that recommended me Bonnouji. Next time, you better get me that harrumph on time, Capitan. Servant x service is the finished product compared to working's drawing board with some doodles and a crude scrawl of a child kidnapper on it
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Working does have the better OP though I will give you that
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